Without Mastery

Reading and Other Forces

Sarah Wood

Description

Without Mastery engages the pleasures and rigours of reading, invoking Shakespeare's Weird Sisters, Plato's Lady Necessity, Freud, Derrida, Cixous, animals, angels, ghosts and children to explore our desire for mastery - especially the omnipotence of thoughts. Masterful thinking has brought the planet into environmental crisis. The acquiescence of reading, Wood shows, allows us to make contact with the unthinkable.

Without Mastery

Reading and Other Forces

Sarah Wood

Table of Contents

Through the ReaderInventing the ReaderTry Thinking As If PerhapsA Mere Instinctive DeconstructionClose to the EarthBeyond Me Nowhere But This EarthEditReading MattersSome Thing, Some One, Some Ghost (About the Fires of Writing)NightshiftToo Late To Begin?

Without Mastery

Reading and Other Forces

Sarah Wood

Author Information

Sarah Wood teaches English literature and literary theory at the University of Kent. She is an Editor of Oxford Literary Review and of Angelaki. She is also a trainee at the Guild of Psychotherapists in London